I usually write about topics like operating systems and computer refurbishing. Today let's ditch that trivial stuff and tackle something really important like... How have computers and operating systems been portrayed on TV and in films? It's time we seek our inner geek. With this hearty sign of approval we're on our way...

There is that rumor floating around that writers of CSI and similar shows are in a pissing contest about who can sneak the most ridiculous technobabble bullshit into their respective shows.

Don't be so rude. What you disrespectfully call "most ridiculous technobabble bullshit" is common terminology in modern IT marketing! :-)

So far I think CSI is winning with "GUI interface using Visual Basic" [1] and "corneal imaging" [2].

Yeah, sure. I'm going to create a blackwhite IP offer of 192.168.2 now in order to commit an RFC based hyperbolic transport location for Shloynts & Froymbrowner ambulance interprocess access level telemetry... hey, I can do this all day, maybe I should write scripts for CSI: Stasi or CSI: Wanne-Eickel. :-)